MongoDB Atlasvs
Firebase Realtime Database
Timings
Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Load time across different locations. Lower is better.
| Location |  DB Query Time Load |  DB Query Time Load | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 us-west-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
| us-east-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ca-central-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 sa-east-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-central-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-west-2 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-west-3 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-north-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-south-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 af-south-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-southeast-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-northeast-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-east-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-southeast-2 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-northeast-2 | N/A | N/A | ||
Serverless Database features
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
| Feature | | | |
|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | |||
API | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes | REST API | |
Edge Functions Support for Edge Functions | Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API | Cloud functions | |
Developer Experience | |||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP, OLAP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Document based, NoSQL | Document based, NoSQL | |
CLI | atlas | Firebase CLI | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | All languages supporting MongoDB driver | JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C++, Objective-C | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | Mongo-Query-Language (MQL) | JSON | |
ACID compliant ACID is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps | ACID compliant, document level atomicity. | ||
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB | Doesn't have support | |
Backups | Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters | ||
Security & Compliance Offerings | |||
SOC2 | Apart from App indexing | ||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication | |||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default | HTTPS, TLS | |
SSO | SAML-based SSO solution | ||
Monitoring and analytics | |||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster" | Document level history 30 days retention | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based monitoring tools | Web based monitoring tools | |
Scalability | |||
Replication and Partitioning | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load | Region groups | |